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Digitising Special CollectionsPublic-Private Partnerships at the KB and abroadMarieke van Delft, KB, Keeper of Early Printed Collections / Project Leader ProQuestCERL - Londen, 30 October 2012
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• Founded in 1798• Middle-sized National Library• 6 million items (books, newspapers, journals)• 200 million digital pages• 60 million digitised pages• 300 staff (265 fte)• M€ 60 budget• 100,500 users on-site (2011)• 2 million users online, 4,5 million visits (2011)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB): facts & figures
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Our mission
• The KB is the National Library of the Netherlands: we bring people and information together
• Our core values are: accessibility, sustainability, innovation and cooperation
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Strategic targets for 2025
• We will have digitised all Dutch books, newspapers and periodicals from 1470 onwards
• We will offer permanent access to all (born) digital & digitised publications from the Netherlands
• …
• And of course we keep on caring for our printed collections!
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Priorities
• Digital: full speed ahead
• Reaching a wider audience
• Strengthening international cooperation
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How much is it?
• 2,5 million books (M500 pages = ‘all’)
• 4750 newspapers (M13 pages = ‘most important’)
• 10,000 periodicals (M14 = ‘most used/important’)
• In total: 527 million digitised pages (~ M€ 300)
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Funding (project costs only!)• Public / (almost) finished: costs pages• Parliamentary papers (1814-1995) M€ 12 M2,3• Early Dutch books (1780-1800) M€ 3 M2,2• Historic Newspapers (1660-1995) M€ 12,5
M9• Public / ongoing:• Periodicals (1840-1950) M€ 1,5 M1,5• Books (1915-1950) M€ 30 M60• Microfilms / books (1870-1915) M€ 8 M16• Public-private / ongoing• Books (1700-1870) Google M35• Books (1470-1700) ProQuest M5
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Public-Private Partnerships KB
Preferred conditions:• Non-exclusive• Copies of digital files for/at KB• Free access for at least Dutch IP addresses• Sharing data with other services• No free access to index means end of
contract• Temporary contract (no open end)
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Conditions Public-Private Partnerships KB
Google ProQuest
• Non-exclusive √ X*• Copies of digital files for KB √ √• free access (for at least Dutch IP-addresses) √
√• sharing data with other services √ X• no free access to index = end of contract √ -• temporary contract** √ √
* now allowed when it does not harm ProQuest’s service** terms not in line with the proposed 2012 revision of
the EC PSI Directive of 2003.
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Partner ProQuest Google
Period 1450-1700 1700-1871
Number C. 30,000 C. 160,000
Selection All books NL; selection abroad (not too fragile)
All books (not too fragile or too expensive)
Procedure Scanning in KB Scanning outside KB
Characteristics
Precious books that need more careful handling
Careful bulk digitisation
Access website (ProQuest and KB)
Free for Dutch IP address; elsewhere with license (ProQuest)
Free worldwide
Metadata and OCR
KB-metadata; enhanced by ProQuest; extensive search options; no OCR
KB-Metadata; minimal search options; OCR
Redistribution
Not during license term; after license term CC NC
Allowed for individual objects; no harvesting
ProQuest and Google
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Video about Google at the KB
Video about ProQuest at the KB
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Are we the only ones?
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Certainly not !
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Other European Libraries cooperating with ProQuest
• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (Florence, Italy) • The Wellcome Library, London (United Kingdom)
• Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Other European Libraries cooperating with Google
Ghent University Library• Bavarian State Library• Austrian National Library• University Library of Lausanne• British Library• University of Oxford• Complutense University of Madrid• National Library of Catalonia• Municipal Library of Lyon• National Library of the Czech Republic (starts 2013)
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Other firms cooperating with European libraries (some examples)
Adam MatthewAdam Matthew Digital (www.amdigital.co.uk/)Literary Manuscripts Leeds (University of Leeds)
BrepolsBrepoli s (www.brepolis.net)Library of Latin Texts (Louvain la Neuve)
BrillPrimary Sources (www.primarysourcesonline.nl/)TEMPO: The Early Modern Pamphlets Online (KB, Groningen, German libraries)
DC ThomsonBrightsolid (www.brightsolid.com/)
The British Newspaper Archive (British Library)Gale
Gale Digital Collections (http://gdc.gale.com/) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (British Library, Oxford a.o.)
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Why Public-Private Partnerships?
To digitise collections that would otherwise not be digitised because of lack of funding
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Important: both parties should benefit!
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Contributions and strength
Libraries:- Collections- Structured, specialised metadata- Knowledge of the subject and
collections
Commercial parties- Money- Machines and process- Knowledge of digitisation and the
market
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Issues to be negotiated • Possibility for other partnerships (non-exclusive)?• Copies of digital files? • Free access for certain groups (national IP addresses)?• Availability of metadata?• Possibility to share data with other services?• Temporary contract? Term of contract
(new EC directive; payback term)• Free use of a percentage (digital exhibitions)?• Copyright issues (if necessary)
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PPP is not without costs!
• Annual costs of storage (KB 2018 M€ 5)
• Costs of provision of source material
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PPP’s make digitisation of Special Collections possible
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Thank you for your attention